Swimming against the tide in STEM education and gender equality: a problem of recruitment or retention in Malaysia
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is acknowledged as one of the key drivers of technological innovation. Malaysian women join the educational pipeline as equals to their male counterparts. Nevertheless, women are persistently under-represented in technology and engineering, bu...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2017
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/15618/1/Siew.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/15618/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313106583_Swimming_against_the_tide_in_STEM_education_and_gender_equality_a_problem_of_recruitment_or_retention_in_Malaysia http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2016.1277383 |
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| Institution: | Universiti Malaysia Sarawak |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is acknowledged as one of the key drivers of technological innovation. Malaysian women join the educational pipeline as equals to their male
counterparts. Nevertheless, women are persistently under-represented in technology and engineering, but over-represented in other STEM fields.
Using data provided by the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education, our results suggest that under-representation of women in engineering was attributed to low recruitment at the point of entry. Such a finding thus
begs the question as to why women were not recruited into
engineering. Malaysian policymakers and educators need to address
under-representation of women in order to achieve gender equality in
STEM, as part of the goals of Millennium Development and Vision 2020;
to become a nation that is competent, confident and innovative in
harnessing and advancing science and technology. |
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